Long before he caught on with country audiences as a performer, Devin Dawson was committed to the craft of making great songs. He still calls himself a “songwriter/singer,” one who knows how to match sharply nuanced lyrics with unbeatable hooks. Those qualities are just as prominent in “God’s Country”—a richly detailed and bighearted celebration of heartland living that he co-wrote for Blake Shelton—as they are in the songs he keeps for himself.